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Monica

@monicaokami.bsky.social

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North Texas Motion Designer 🚫 No AI, no NFTs 🚫 Open for work~ visit my website to hire me at https://www.monicaokami.com/

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Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · May 16

Howdy Bluesky 🤠 I’m Monica, a North Texas creative looking to connect with other #artists here.

I do a bit of everything from illustration, design, and 2D/3D animation. I just started this account and this is my first post, so if you’d like to join the introduction #arttrain 🚂 hop aboard

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Aug 23

Every year Typism works with #internationalwomensday to create a theme that creatives can participate in as a part of their creative mission, and last years’ theme was #accelerateaction

This piece was created using @cavalry.app and some #patataschool knowledge

#genderequality #feminism #hfk

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Aug 17

I have had an Ali Hazelwood Summer ☀️ the STEMinist books were soooo good! Love this piece

Reposted by Monica

Funko POP! News @funkonews.bsky.social · Aug 5

Dunkin X Sabrina Carpenter collab ~ reusable cup to be launched soon! #Dunkin #DunkinDonuts #SabrinaCarpenter #FPN #FunkoPOPNews

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Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Aug 17

I’m a little worried to upload this one because of the music but I created 31 #animated lyric videos based on #sabrinacarpenter songs last October and want to share it here. I still can’t believe I was able to complete this challenge. I used #letteringstylechallenge prompts from Aurelie Maron

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Aug 16

Kinda late but did you guys stock up on #art / #craft supplies when #Joanns was closing? I didn’t go there often but I’m happy that Michael’s is going to continue making selling their yarn for all the crocheting and knitting people out there.
This was my #haul as well as a few random things

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Aug 14

I made a long form yt video reviewing 3 different #artists patroons and TLDW #lotusbubble has the best one for value #arteducation #howtodrawanimegirl

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Aug 10

Have you ever tried an artists’ Patreon? I tried 3 on my Yt channel and 1 was a clear winner. If you want the TLDW I’ll post about the best one soon.

#patreon #art #tutorial #review

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Aug 9

#art inspired by a #summer full of #biking #mtb

I actually made this video last year but I didn’t have a blue sky acct then so it seemed like a good time to repost!

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Aug 3

I don’t think I recorded this drawing but I might still have the animation on my computer 🤨 so I’ll upload that eventually! This is actually a #dtiys so the original character is by Taylea/Sketch Scholar

#sketchvsfinal #sketch #adobeillustrator #vectorart

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Jun 19

This is #fanart I drew for the book #voiceoftheocean have you heard of it??? I’m not very far in the book yet, but I wanted to make some #mermay #art for it since the main #character is a #siren

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Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Jun 17

Random #mushroom #illustrator #3d thing I wanted to try

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Jun 14

Here’s a rare #nomadsculpt piece inspired by the #queenofhearts character holding a #muffin

Also big thanks to @moravieytesillustration for inspiring me to #3dsculpt some hearts with her wonderful tutorials

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Jun 13

Wow this is incredible!

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Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Jun 13

A new medium I’d like to get into as a #motiondesigner is #animatedpatterns but I don’t know if this will be easy for business owners to implement into their #branding and social media strategies.
This isn’t the best example of what I mean since it is just the image scrolling but imagine

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Jun 11

Here’s how this piece turned out. Do you think something like this would work on a product? Like a notebook or scrapbook, maybe a paper bag at a bakery 🤔

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Jun 11

This is another #pattern I attempted to #design based on selfies and eclairs 🧁🍰🥐 back in February based on a mixture of prompts from different #art challenges going on at the time.

Are there any fun challenges going on this Summer here on Bluesky??

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Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Jun 10

This was how it turned out btw 🤗
#valentinesdayart

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Jun 10

I was originally trying to make a functional #pattern out of this an gave up halfway through just to finish the piece 🤣

Do you make patterns? #Surfacedesign and #artlicensing are some of the hustles that have been on my mind this year but I haven’t truly dived in yet. Maybe this is my month 🤪

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Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Jun 8

Fellow artists- do you think drawing timelapses / process videos do well on Bluesky?

I would assume that this is not a video pushing platform, but we can post them so I’m curious if you’ve had success with videos here 🤷‍♀️ so many platforms prioritize them so I think it’s always handy to know

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Jun 6

Last October I made an #animated piece every day based off of #sabrinacarpenter #lyrics

If you want to see all of the pieces, you can find a reel showing them all on the personal tab on my website 🤗

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · Jun 1

I went full-time as a motion designer this year and am seeing real traction on Upwork. Even with just a couple of reviews, I get invited to jobs + chat directly with clients—no connects needed.

Thanks to the awesome clients so far 🙏
Want visuals? Hire me via Upwork or directly through my website

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · May 30

This is a #3D piece I made as part of a #february / #valentines challenge where I tried to make something different everyday following prompts {these prompts being milkshake, love potion, and moon I believe}
I created this using #blender and #greasepencil

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Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · May 30

Here’s some #lettering #fanart I made for the #percyjackson #Disney+ series. The illustration behin the letters was directly based on a frame early in the show. I think they did a pretty good job with S1 and while I wait for S2 I’m trying to read this Nico di Angelo book (it’s free on Hoopla!)

Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · May 25

He basically just put the videos into a different course platform, it’s still accessible on his website just less technical issues I believe

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Monica @monicaokami.bsky.social · May 24

Oh geez 😅 people are scary